Fear-mongering? LOL. Apparently Alain does not look at the dates of
these attempts at what are essentially PR, many of which were sanitized
and put into circulation by TEPCO or their insurance carrier. The
company has been caught in many outright lies since the accident and
this is more of the same.
The best response to the "no surprise" article can be paraphrased from
the comments from others and from common sense. In fact, it is
preposterous to imagine that the radiation level of more than 530 Sv/hr
now measured ... "could be expected" given the intervening years and
prior levels which were low. Do you understand what this level means so
long after the accident? Apparently not.
TEPCO reported a previous high reading of 73 Sv/hr soon after the
accident. That would have been in the "no surprise" category, and
relatively less than expected (Chernobyl high reading was 200) but the
new reading is completely off the charts, coming this late. It should
have dropped every year. That is the biggest problem, it is going the
wrong way.
It is a paradigm shift which at worst means that substantial amounts,
possibly many tons or formerly fertile material (U238) is becoming
fissile (Pu239) or at least activated in an unknown way. A secondary
explosion cannot be ruled out since the cores can merge. Thankfully the
cores are melting their way deeper and deeper into earth, but if the 3
should merge... kaboom ... but let's not go there. Google OKLO a site
in Africa where natural uranium went critical.
"If the material causing the initial reading (73 Sv/Hr) would have been
normal nuclear fuel at relatively low enrichment, then that level should
have gone down by an order of magnitude in the ensuing time. We should
be seeing no more than 7 Sv/Hr now, BUT instead, it is 500 or 70 times
higher in one location after almost 6 years.
Thus this high reading was actually totally unexpected by many experts
not associated with the company. It is essentially 70 times higher than
expected if representative, and could be worse the deeper one goes (or
less). As for proof of that dishonesty, consider that the Robots being
used were designed to withstand 1000 Sv (LIFETIME irradiation until
failure) which is only two hours at this rate. You would never use them
if you were "expecting" anything near these levels. Of course they
quickly failed and this means the rate was a huge surprise.
Had TEPCO expected the 500 Sv level of radiation, as competent engineers
they would have increased the radiation hardness of the robot by a
factor of ten in order to get anywhere near the endurance time they
needed for a meaningful probe. That they did not, completely eliminates
their "no surprise" BS. They are lying, plain and simple and the robot
proves they are lying.
Plus, if the high radiation was localized in a small zone, then try to
explain why the robot remained over that spot so long... and failed
"prematurely"? Obviously the danger zone could be much larger and
possibly the radiation level is even more severe than admitted - since
the robot failed so quickly. That failure is another smoking gun, so to
speak.
Again, it is ludicrous to say this high reading was expected ... unless
you are a company that was essentially negligent beyond all reason, both
in the design and more so in the response.
Worst of all - 5 years from now, the situation could be more toxic,
since it appears 3 completely unconstrained cores are converting fertile
uranium into fissile plutonium at an unexpected rate. Again, if a
secondary explosion (hydrogen, steam or nuclear) cannot be ruled out,
should not TEPCO be evacuating a wider zone?
At Chernobyl, the situation has improved year to year, every year, as
expected. Wildlife is taking over the formerly devastated area.
Fukushima, appears to be going in the opposite direction.
On 2/18/2017 8:36 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote:
to relativize the fearmongering
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/high-fukushima-radiation-estimates-no-surprise-to-experts
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/243904-fukushimas-reactor-2-far-radioactive-previously-realized-no-sign-containment-breach
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/09/national/science-health/extensive-radiation-study-finds-no-internal-cesium-exposure-fukushima-children/#.WJoJrzvhDzT
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003511587
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/fukushima-residents-exposed-far-less-radiation-thought
https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/11/thyroid-cancer-south-korea-cautionary-tale-about-dangers-overdiagnosis
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2017/02/07/radiation-levels-not-soaring-at-fukushima-daiichi/
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/
diversify your sources, or at least avoid the fearmongers and the
salesmen.
http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/claire-leppold/fukushima-and-the-art-of-knowing-en_b_10537440.html
http://www.gepr.org/en/contents/20120507-03/
anyway there have been an heavy death toll, beside the huge 20k of
living near water
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/fear-of-radiation-has-killed-761-and.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/02/evacuation-deaths-in-japan-in-2011-were.html
water kills, we should forbid it
2017-02-18 16:19 GMT+01:00 Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net
<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net>>:
Fukushima much worse than imagined - 3 cores in runaway meltdown
with no chance to stop them. China syndrome in reverse...
Makes Chernobyl look like spilled milk
http://www.environews.tv/world-news/alert-new-radiation-readings-fukushima-reactor-2-unimaginable-lethal-1-min/
<http://www.environews.tv/world-news/alert-new-radiation-readings-fukushima-reactor-2-unimaginable-lethal-1-min/>
How long before the entire Pacific fishing industry is shut down?
http://dailyoccupation.com/2016/12/28/fukushima-radiation-contaminated-entire-pacific-ocean-going-get-worse/
<http://dailyoccupation.com/2016/12/28/fukushima-radiation-contaminated-entire-pacific-ocean-going-get-worse/>
Be sure to take your rad monitor to the fish market... and avoid
the specials.
